This panorama was created by combining about a dozen separate digital photographs. They were shot in the middle of the crowd without the usual tripod. Camera (a Canon EOS 5D with a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L zoom lens) held at arms length above my head, I rotated slowly taking photographs in each direction. They were stitched and blended together by Hugin, which in turn invoked Nona and Enblend. Because of the moving people a lot of tidying-up by hand was required which was done using Photoshop.

The Undertones are probably the best known little rock band to come out of Derry , (N. Ireland) during the late 1970s punk era. Their hit “Teenage Kicks” was famously touted as his “favourite record ever” by influential BBC DJ John Peel.

In 1983 – after eight years of touring they went their separate ways. Sixteen years later, in November 1999, four out of the original five members reformed the band, with Paul McCloone filling the fifth spot as lead singer. Since then they have undertaken tours of the UK, Ireland, Europe and North America.

This image was used in publicity material by the bid for Derry to be UK City of Culture. Derry City Council licensed the use of the image and printed their own huge posters based on it. It has also sold several times (about six) at physical exhibitions as a smaller (10″x10″) framed print .

This 360° panorama was shot just as The Undertones played “Teenage Kicks” as the big finale to their concert as part of “The Picnic in The Park” Festival organised by the Friends of Brooke Park on 4 th August 2007 in Derry.

Although it had drizzled a bit, earlier in the afternoon, the rain held off throughout the hour or more for which they played. They even sang “Here comes Summer” without fate’s sense of irony intervening.

This image is also available as part of a calendar

Panoramic views of Ireland

This panorama was created by combining about a dozen separate digital photographs. They were shot in the middle of the crowd without the usual tripod. Camera (a Canon EOS 5D with a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L zoom lens) held at arms length above the photographer’s head I rotated slowly taking photographs in each direction. They were stitched and blended together by Hugin, which in turn invoked Nona and Enblend. Because of teh moving people a lot of tidying-up by hand was required which was done using Photoshop.

Because of the way that it was created this is a very high resolution image (the equivalent of about 80-megapixels). It’s capable of delivering very fine detail even when printed at massive sizes.

Teenage Kicks starts at 3:00 minutes in. For the first few seconds and again at around 3:45 and at 4:51-4:57 you get brief glimpses of me at the front of the crowd shooting the panorama – look for the guy with the large camera in front of his face! (To the right of the frame.) Or with the camera at arms length overhead with the strap hanging down.

Comments

That is really incredible and I can see other entities, companies etc, contacting you to do a version of ‘their thing’ in this manner.

Ken, Thanks for the kind words – I will be delighted to take on such work if you right. However it did take a fair bit of work … as the people went on dancing while I was shooting the multiple shots … so there was quite a bit of hand-crafted work as well as the auto-pano stitching of Hugin. It is certainly a popular one – I have sold a few prints and it was used as a cover shot for the document that presented Derry’s bid to be “UK Capital of Culture”. George